Audience Fave Nunsense Gets A Dose of Drag With Nunsense A-Men

Described as "Mrs. Doubtfire goes to the convent," this play takes the original hit show, Nunsense, and plays it just as it was written--but with all male performers! It's the same audience favorite comedy, in which 52 of the members of Little Sisters of Hoboken have been accidentally poisoned by the cook, leaving the remaining few to oversee their burial. The show portrays the madcap variety show they put on to pay for the funeral, featuring crazy dance routines, solo star turns, an audience quiz and comic surprises. A whole new layer of dragnificent comedy surfaces with lines like "The guys in the old neighborhood still can't believe I became a nun!"

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This is an all-male version of the classic comedy. Costa Mesa Playhouse will also be staging the classic Nunsense https://www.goldstar.com/events/costa-mesa-ca/nunsense, with an all-female cast.

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Nunsense A-Men (All Male Cast)

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Dan Goggin

Directed by Jason Holland

Musical Directed by Stephen Hulsey

Choreography by Michael Wallot

When the Little Sisters of Hoboken’s cook accidentally poisons 52 of the nuns with tainted vichyssoise, Mother Superior Mary Regina, a former circus performer, decides to raise funds for their burials by staging a variety show, performed by five of the remaining sisters and featuring madcap dance routines, solo star turns, an audience quiz and comic surprises.

The Nunsense concept originated as a line of greeting cards featuring a nun offering tart quips with a clerical slant. They caught on so quickly that writer Dan Goggin turned the concept into a cabaret show that ran for 38 weeks, then expanded it again into a full-length theater production which opened off-Broadway in 1985 and became the second-longest-running off-Broadway show in history, winning four Outer Critics Circle Awards including best book and music, and best off-Broadway musical. It has spawned six sequels and threespin-offs.

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Nunsense A-Men_, the original show with all the characters portrayed by men in drag, was originally staged in Brazil before transferring to New York City in 1998. Think of it as “Mrs. Doubtfire enters the Convent.”